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Brashear After School: Bulls Bucks & Future Plans

January 25, 2017 – 3:18 pm
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For some After Schoolers, the high school experience is almost over. Students looked ahead to what they plan to do after they bid farewell to Brashear.

Jeannette After School: Over/Underrated

January 19, 2017 – 5:36 pm
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New technology. Social media applications. Fashion. Movies. There’s always going to be some cultural phenomenons that never quite lands with you. Jeannette’s After School cohort had some great responses and explanations of things they think are overrated and underrated.

Woodland Hills Prime Time 2017: “The Arcane Swordsmen”

January 17, 2017 – 3:15 am
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6th, 7th and 8th graders at Woodland Hills Prime Time wrote and performed their own original radio play, “The Arcane Swordsmen!” The play follows the time traveling exploits of four displaced warriors, all from different cultures and ages, as they attempt to defeat the villainous Prime and his time-controlling machinations.

Jeannette After School: About Jeannette

January 12, 2017 – 5:18 pm
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We’re back at Jeannette Senior High School this year and excited to be working with after school students. Week one is in the books, and while we learned a lot about each other and what we’ll be working on together, the after school cohort also gave us a glimpse of what being a part of their Westmoreland community is like.

Brashear After School: MLK Day

January 11, 2017 – 12:58 pm
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With Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the horizon Brashear After School students did some writing, reflecting, and had discussions about the civil rights leader. What would MLK think of progress in the United States if he were here today?

Propel Pitcairn After School: Snow Storm

December 13, 2016 – 2:56 pm
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It was the first real snow accumulation of the season and with the majesty and excitement of the first snow, we asked Propel Pitcairn students to imagine a wild hypothetical in which they must survive being snowed inside the school. Though all parties agreed that they were going to need heat, the other necessities (and means of escape) spanned a long and creative expanse!

Propel Hazelwood After School: Monsters

December 7, 2016 – 5:58 pm
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We asked After Schoolers at Propel Hazelwood to dream up a fantastical creature that lives behind their school. There were a few different approaches to monster creation; some classically scary, some misunderstood, and some friendly.

Propel Pitcairn After School: Over/Underrated

December 6, 2016 – 1:11 pm
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We asked after school students at Propel Pitcairn what things they thought were overrated, as well as some things they thought didn’t quite get the recognition they deserved (like tea, for example).

Propel Hazelwood After School: Ultimate Pet

November 30, 2016 – 5:12 pm
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We’ve all daydreamed about having an exotic pet. A tiger… a panda… maybe some kind of tiger/panda hybrid. The sky’s the limit! Students at Propel Hazelwood put aside the prohibitive costs (and city permitting issues) that go along with owning a rare, possibly dangerous creature, to talk about what kind of animal they would choose if they could have any pet.

Propel Pitcairn After School: Monster Stories

November 29, 2016 – 5:22 pm

Students at Propel Pitcairn After School were asked to dream up a monster that lives behind their school. What would it do? What would it eat? How did it come to be?